Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id NAA29599 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Sat, 11 Nov 2000 13:57:54 GMT Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 13:53:12 +0000 To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Tests show a human side to chimps Message-ID: <20001111135312.B1380@reborntechnology.co.uk> References: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3101745AF9@inchna.stir.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3101745AF9@inchna.stir.ac.uk>; from v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk on Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 11:18:07AM -0000 From: Robin Faichney <robin@reborntechnology.co.uk> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 11:18:07AM -0000, Vincent Campbell wrote:
>
> As to intelligent social species, well so are dolphins, could they have
> memes?
Certainly. Songbirds do, after all.
> BTW, and entirely unrelated to the discussion, did you see the Omnibus the
> other night about William Blake? He's my favourite poet. I like his art
> also (although not as much as Schiele's or Cezanne's).
>
> I particularly like the lines in 'The Garden of Love' that go-
>
> And priests in black gowns
> Were walking their rounds,
> And binding with briers,
> My joys and desires.
>
> There's a man that understood the true nature of organised religion.
That's funny, because I see Blake as the preeminent British mystic.
Funny, but not surprising, because mysticism has always been at odds
with organised religion in the West.
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